Message-ID: <4717D9BF.4010508@redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 15:10:07 -0700
From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Organization: Red Hat, Inc.
User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.5 (X11/20070727)
MIME-Version: 1.0
To: Rene Herman <rene.herman@keyaccess.nl>
CC: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>, Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@kvack.org>,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: OOM notifications
References: <20071018202504.GA2854@dmt>	<4717C43D.6030204@keyaccess.nl>	<20071018165238.0537eaa6@bree.surriel.com>	<4717CAEC.50203@keyaccess.nl> <20071018171857.409255de@bree.surriel.com> <4717D7B6.40102@keyaccess.nl>
In-Reply-To: <4717D7B6.40102@keyaccess.nl>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org
Content-Length: 944
Lines: 26

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

Rene Herman wrote:
> That first threshold sounds fine yes. To me, the second mostly sounds
> like a job for SIGTERM though.

I agree.  Applications shouldn't be expected to be yet more complicated
and have different levels of low memory handling.  You might want to
give a process a second shot at handling SIGDANGER but after that's it's
all about preparation for a shutdown.

- --
➧ Ulrich Drepper ➧ Red Hat, Inc. ➧ 444 Castro St ➧ Mountain View, CA ❖
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux)

iD8DBQFHF9m/2ijCOnn/RHQRAhwjAKC38y1OLv0mE5sWHY31CwJ2ZaoAXwCglDTO
05pmpe8jMVhwM0nlCHqZyaQ=
=5DvG
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/